Oswald Clark: During a Sept. 17 interview on NBC's Meet the Press with new host Kristen Walker, former president Donald Trump said six-week abortion bans are hurting Republicans and that he would broker a compromise on abortion that would satisfy both pro-life and pro-abortion activists so the country and the Republican Party could move on from the issue. Pro-life activists were quick [...]
Life to the Full: True Stories that Reveal the Dignity of Every Human Life Edited by Abby Johnson and Tyler Rowley (Ignatius Press, $16.95 pb or ebook, 178 pages) Life to the Full is a collection of more than 20 first-person accounts by women and doctors as they confront the reality of abortion. Many of the stories are chilling and this is [...]
Rory Leishman: For 15 years, blameless Christians dedicated to the care and teaching of children within Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS) have been lumped in with the few perverts in their midst and vilified with the most outrageous smears. Yet no political leaders or clerical leaders within the churches -- Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, and United -- which ran these schools for the [...]
Oswald Clark, Review: Tyranny Inc. by Sohrab Ahmari (Forum Books, $37.99, 252 pages) There is much material to support the promising subtitle of Sohrab Ahmari’s new book, Tyranny Inc: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It but Ahmari focuses completely on aspect of supposedly tyrannical companies: their treatment of employees. Readers who know Ahmari as a critic of [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 20, hundreds of thousands of parents took part in demonstrations at school boards, in front of provincial legislatures and city halls, on Parliament Hill, and at other public institutions to oppose gender ideology propaganda in schools and reassert the rights of parents in their children's education. In Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener, Hamilton, Mississauga, Ottawa, and Toronto thousands [...]
The promotion of abortion in Northern Ireland’s schools In 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as a sort of ‘international bill of rights for women,’ to “ensure the elimination of all acts of discrimination against women.” The United Kingdom’s Conservative government has imposed legislation on Northern Ireland which the London-based [...]
Richard Dur, Commentary: Three weeks after the release of Sound of Freedom, a film that tells the incredible true story of a former government agent who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from sex traffickers, Premier Danielle Smith announced a $4-million investment to tackle the scourge of human trafficking in Alberta. Typically, human trafficking takes the form of sexual [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey There’s a quotation I really like from author and left-wing activist Andrew Boyd: “You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” When you use abortion victim photography in activism, as I have for almost a decade now, [...]
Anna Kennedy : The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) released a report examining the research on a study JAMA Surgery conducted on trans-identifying women who underwent mastectomies, and they found the research did not support the authors’ conclusion that women who remove their breasts to pose as males did not demonstrate regret with their decisions. JAMA’s study, titled “Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction with [...]
John Carpay: When statisticians speak of “excess” deaths, they speak of a higher-than-expected death rate. The number of “expected” deaths (for a country or province, for one year or some other time period) is based on the population’s age, race, employment, education, income, marriage rates, birth rates, and mortality statistics for previous periods. For example, statisticians might expect 300,000 people to die in [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements In her new book On Class, Toronto writer and editor Deborah Dundas talks about showing up for a job interview at a television station overdressed. Brought up with a working-class background, she recalls that she “looked like I was pretending to be a banker,” while the people interviewing her dressed more casually, familiar [...]
Paul Tuns: From the editor's desk Typical headlines on a local crime story read “Nebraska teen who used pills to end pregnancy gets 90 days in jail” (New York Times) and “Nebraska teen sent to jail over illegal abortion” (Rolling Stone). The first is misleading, the second an outright lie. Read the actual news story and one discovers that Celeste Burgess, 18, [...]
Paul Tuns: Roman Catholic Bishop Nicola De Angelis, Bishop emeritus of Peterborough. Photo: Catholic Register Outspokenly pro-life Roman Catholic Bishop Nicola De Angelis, Bishop emeritus of Peterborough and former Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, died in Montefiascone, Italy on June 16 at the age of 84. Nicola De Angelis was born in Sabina, Italy in 1939 and immigrated to Canada in [...]
Warren McArthur: Maltese lawmakers successfully stopped an attempt by pro-abortion activists to demand concessions for legal and widespread abortion in their country. This is happening in light of a recent Pew research poll which shows widespread support for abortion across Europe. An amendment to the Criminal Code in Malta would have legalized abortion in cases where the mother’s health was at risk. [...]
Rory Leishman: Time and again, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged that as of March 17, 2024, physicians and nurse practitioners in Canada will be authorized to kill suicidal patients who are suffering solely from a mental illness. What can account for this appalling prospect? The Criminal Code of Canada clearly and unambiguously states in sections 14 and [...]